Re: why vaginal acidophilus????

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I 'm a littel concerned about the vaginal acidophilus concept.

I know people have also used yogurt vaginally. SO I understandthe sense

of this.However, from what Ive learned about Candida, it lives in your

gut and gets to your vagina via your rectal area, in essence. I mean,

its on your skin too, but it colonizes in your gut. In whats called a

" bowel resevoir " . The thinking, or I should say, one kind of thinking

about vaginal candida overgrowth is that it is accompanied by a bowel

resevoir overgrowth- so to control an overgrowth on vaginal candida, you

need to get a hold of the problem in the bowels. This is why oral

antifungals are recommended.

SO if youre going to take acidophilus, you might as well take it orally.

Is there any advantage to taking it vaginally?? I mean, there is such a

thing as acidophilus overgrowth too, and I would hesitate introducing a

bacteria directly into the vagina at such a high quantity. Anne mentiend

one that is formultate for vaginal use- that sounds more like it, though

I would be really curious to know how its safe for vagnial use.

Then again, I might be a Paranoid Patty becuase it seems sticking

medicines in my vulva got me in a whole lot of trouble!!!

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